I think I can see where this is going… Billie will kiss Ruth in gratitude and then rush into the elevator. Everyone who witnessed it will lapse into awkward silence and not criticize Billie for taking Dina’s spot (and will also understand why Ruth yanked Dina out). Yup, that seems logical.

If you’re going to use algebra to analyze a sum of live human bodies, you must consider the variable destabilizing effect of psychology.

I suspect that the Volume of X will become available out of defearance (sic) to Ruth’s apparent desire for such Volume to be available, even if it involves another girl deciding that it’s preferable to dive out of the elevator and roll to a running start toward the nearest staircase as opposed to remaining within arm’s reach of Ruth.

Perhaps Mercury is the best “Sailor Scout”, but people who know that they’re Sailor Senshi know that Jupiter is best. They also know that Jupiter/Venus is a far superior slash pairing to Jupiter/Mercury.

She would probably be a big fan of the concept and sit down to watch Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger in Japanese…and then would lose interest as soon as she realized that the show is COMPLETELY
paleontologically INACCURATE I mean mammoths aren’t dinosaurs AT ALL, and what is up with the whole dinosaur-evolved-humans thing, I mean COME ON.

She would rant on that for hours. And everyone would stare in shock because of how much she’s talking.

Everyone is talking about some east Asian middle-schooler in a sailor fuku
Yet here I sit and the first thing that popped into my minds eye was a small guy with an awesome mustache in spandex getting ready to do some melodies.

True. And It did occur to me, just as I pressed the “Post Comment” button, that Ruth may have made a “homebrew” of her own before walking out into the hallway. However, She still wouldn’t need to hide the bottle, since such a drink would not be detectable by looking at it.

Lookout! It’s Ruth! Able to bend elevator doors to unnatural curves to yank poor college students out of the elevator to make room for another! One would argue that Dina is smaller than Billie, and Ruth will give a level look that makes the outer edge of students become ONE with the elevator itself!

What you don’t realize yet is that Ruth pulled out the smallest person so that Billie will try to enter the elevator, realize that she doesn’t fit, and then realize that Ruth pulled a Mike and accomplished an elaborate fat joke.

Yeah, I was just thinking about the same thing. In the majority of situations taking the stairway is quicker in a building like that too, especially if you’re only going down a few floors and it’s a busy time. Even if the stairs themselves are busy you can push through, and gravity is on your side. Parkour it and jump down each half-flight.

Waiting for people to get in, waiting for the doors to close, it gradually picking up speed, maybe stopping on the way where someone on another floor has pushed the button, it gradually coming to a halt at the bottom, waiting for the doors to open, waiting for everyone to pour out, then finding yourself in a slow moving human mass when you want to go quickly…

Elevators are for those with limited mobility, those who want to go upwards quickly without getting out of breath, and for those transporting heavy loads down and moreover upwards. Rarely for those in a hurry to reach ground level.

(and what if there was a fire?)

This, I would predict, is why Sal goes in and out through the window. FARRRRR faster.

Apparently she has never been on a dorm elevator. You WILL stop on every floor down so that the people waiting there because stairs are hard can look blankly at you until the door closes. Class will be over before she makes it.

My thoughts exactly (also pointed out by someone else in the last strip); with a line like that, one could flow down the stairs and be at the elevator doors before the elevator got there (and not even be tired, since downwards), whether four floors or eight floors (though maybe not twenty floors, but I strongly doubt a standard university dormitory is that tall).

Most of them were. However, some of the posts have covered the awkward “I like you, but don’t know how to express it without pulling your hair and saying you smell funny” way Ruth seems to be acting the last few strips.

Whether the crush is romantic or platonic, it was obvious that Ruth and Billie did some kind of bonding the night before, and it’s been pretty obvious all along that Ruth is somewhat emotionally stunted.

So, her current behavior is most likely because she is unable or unwilling to admit she likes Billie. I say “most likely,” because there’s still a good chance she’s genuinely afraid Billie will narc on her and get her kicked out.

I like to imagine that she’s thinking something along the lines of: “Welp, no use fighting the Lady of the Blood-red Hair, go on ahead, She-Whose-Popularity-Is-Slightly-More-Extinct-Than-The-Torosaurus.”

I thought Ruth was looking relaxed yesterday, not at all her usual ‘Mike” exression. So, first she trips Billy up, than she holds the elevator for her. Yeah I have to agree with John, Ruth is about 3rd grade level of romancing the object of your affection.
I love that it’s Dina she hauled out, Dina just points Billy in, and hangs there.

I know a retired English teacher who thinks “welps” are the raised marks you get on your skin when something strikes you. As in: “That branch smacked me across the face, so now I have a welp on my forehead.”

That, my friend, is the awesome, utter power in the engine of the S.S. RuthxBillie. It makes the NaruSasu look like a tiny skipper by comparison. Tremble in awe at the warship that this once-small ship has become.

Seriously, by this point, the S.S. RuthxBillie has enough manpower to single-handedly overtake a medium-sized nation. It’s a scientific fact. Look it up.

Ruth is just a top looking for bottom to train as her own. She’s picked Billy. Now is Billy going to end up getting shit from both ends, from her floormates for being Ruth’s pet, and from Ruth for being Ruth’s pet? Seems like a no-win situation.

I’m confused by the camera angle… it looks like at the beginning, Ruth’s arm is to the left of Billie’s face. Then, suddenly Billie’s on the left side and Ruth has two hands in the elevator, right on the door and left on Dina… Is there some sort of hidden scene where Billie ducks down under the arm and scoots back about 5 feet? And when does Ruth get her second hand on the door… and why doesn’t the door automatically retract back to the side? I’m so confused.